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The Stories We Live By: A Course in Ecolinguistics

Course

Self-paced e-learning

UN Partner

Offered by

University of Gloucestershire ( UN Partner )

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Course details

Level
Introductory
Effort
25 hours
Languages
English
Price
Free
Certificate
Yes

The issues that humanity faces are so severe that they call into question stories that societies are based on. This course provides tools for revealing the stories we live by, questioning them from an ecological perspective, and searching for new stories to bring a more sustainable world into being.

Topics

SDG
SDG4: Quality education
SDG12: Responsible consumption and production
SDG15: Life on land
Subject
Environmental Communication
Keywords
communication
ecolinguistics
narratives
critical awareness
systems thinking

The course goals are for learners to:

1) Develop critical awareness of how texts shape the society they are part of

2) Recognise forms of language that contribute to inequality and unsustainability

3) Develop skills in environmental communication to contribute to the creation of a more sustainable society.

After completing this course you may be interested to progress to the Search for New Stories To Live By course www.storiescourse.org/new

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Target Audience

The audience consists of anyone interested in working towards a more sustainable society, including students from age 17 to PhD level, company employees, NGO workers and teachers.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to: 

1) Analyse texts to reveal the underlying stories that they convey 

2) Judge those stories according to their own values framework 

3) Discover inspirational new stories that can help build a more sustainable world.

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